# Shrine of Śrī Dāmōdhara

J. Ramayya Pantulu

Author of digital edition: J. Ramayya Pantulu

Contributor: Jens Thomas

Identifier: DHARMA_INSTelugu00031

Repository: Telugu Inscriptions (tfb-telugu-epigraphy)

File path: texts/DHARMA_INSTelugu00031.xml

Language: Telugu [Script (unspecified)]

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## Edition

⟨1⟩ śrī dāmōdharēśvaraṁbu

## Translation

(This is the shrine of) Śrī Dāmōdhara

## Commentary

The ending -aṁbu makes clear that the inscription does not represent a
proper noun. The context, “On top of a niche containing a linga”
(Ramayya Pantulu 1948, p. 18), shows that it probably is the name of
that niche.

## Bibliography

The inscription was noted in A. R. No. 266 of 1922 and first published
by J. Ramayya Pantulu with few metadata and without picture and
translation (1948, p. 18, № 41). K. M. Sastri summarizes: “Records the
name of the shrine Dāmōdharēśvaraṁbu” (1969, p. 328, № 56).

### Secondary

Ramayya Pantulu, Jayanti. 1948. South-Indian inscriptions (texts).
Volume X: Telugu inscriptions from the Madras Presidency. South Indian
Inscriptions 10. Delhi: Manager of Publications. Page 18, item 41.

Sastri, Korada Mahadeva. 1969. Historical grammar of Telugu with special
reference to Old Telugu c. 200 B.C. - 1000 A.D. Anantapur: Sri
Venkateswara Univ. Page 328, item 56.